Emma McGowan

Emma McGowan is a full time blogger and digital nomad that has been writing about startups, living with startup people, and basically breathing startups for the past five years. Emma is a regular contributor to Bustle, Startups.co, KillerStartups, and MiKandi. Her byline can also be found on Mashable, The Daily Dot’s The Kernel, Mic, The Bold Italic, as well as a number of startup blogs.

In the context of startups, term sheet is the first formal — but non-binding — document between a startup founder and an investor. A term sheet lays out the terms and conditions for investment. It’s used to negotiate the final terms, which are then written up in a contract. A good term sheet aligns the […]

As Startups.co and Fundable founder Wil Schroter likes to says, “There’s not a lot of ‘fun’ in funding.” Raising equity funding for your startup is a long, difficult, and often demoralizing process. However, if you’re successful, you walk away with money that will help your startup grow and become everything you hope it could become. One of the […]

Startup equity is one of those things that it’s fair to say every startup founder without an MBA struggles with. Most people don’t have to think about this stuff until it’s really important. But if you’re starting to freak out about who gets what slice of your startup pie, take a deep breath, calm down, […]